One of the best things about JavaScript is the ecosystem, as there always seems to be a package that can be used to accomplish your task. However, one of the worst things about JavaScript is that there are often many packages that you can use to achieve the same task. It’s not always obvious which package is best. How do we know which one to use?

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This post compares two popular packages for syntax highlighting in JavaScript: highlight.js and shiki. It examines their popularity, bundle size, functionality, and speed, ultimately concluding that highlight.js is the best choice for the author's use case.

Tale of the Tape: Highlight.js vs Shiki — Begin Blog